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looking forward to see that happening as I am in the same boat.
is there a reason why you chose that particular motherboard over the X10DAi?
it looks to me that the SAS internal controller is just asking for trouble if you will implement an areca card.
it remain unclear for me if it is possible to have a UEFI bios on that motherboard.
I deeply believe that all motherboard manufacturer should invest in having at least 3 motherboard (cheap and compact I3-I5 / enthusiast I7/PRO xeon ) very close to mac specs and with a very close uefi bio to what apple do. they wouldn't have to advertise that they are Hackintosh friendly, just give a board to review to a couple of tester, and they would make money. if there was a board that would mimic apple hardware but in standard PC design, I think they would make a lot of money.
on my Z77 i have a areca 1680Xi with 16 x 4 tb and it is plenty fast speed wise but it take a toll on the graphic cards ( 2X K4000) the machine is fine but just dont have enough PCIE lanes. so it is choking on render.
going from the Promise R6 over thunderbolt to the Areca was just much better : with 16 Tb on the promise in raid 6 I was constantly moving file around to get work done, now with 48 Tb I feel way more confortable.
I already have bought an extra 1680 xi 12 ( got it used for 100$) to see how it would work with 12 cheap SSD : that might be easier to deal with than expensive PCIE SSD and still be able to have over 1Gb/s read /write.
due to the complexity of running dual xeon, I might just go the X99 route until it gets official dual xeon V3 support. this might not happened anytime soon as I dont think they can put two 160w processor in the cylinder...
as long as I can put at least 64 Gb of ram and have 40 PCIE lanes I'll be golden. with the saved cash i might go the twin gtx 980 route over the twin K4000.
is there a reason why you chose that particular motherboard over the X10DAi?
it looks to me that the SAS internal controller is just asking for trouble if you will implement an areca card.
it remain unclear for me if it is possible to have a UEFI bios on that motherboard.
I deeply believe that all motherboard manufacturer should invest in having at least 3 motherboard (cheap and compact I3-I5 / enthusiast I7/PRO xeon ) very close to mac specs and with a very close uefi bio to what apple do. they wouldn't have to advertise that they are Hackintosh friendly, just give a board to review to a couple of tester, and they would make money. if there was a board that would mimic apple hardware but in standard PC design, I think they would make a lot of money.
on my Z77 i have a areca 1680Xi with 16 x 4 tb and it is plenty fast speed wise but it take a toll on the graphic cards ( 2X K4000) the machine is fine but just dont have enough PCIE lanes. so it is choking on render.
going from the Promise R6 over thunderbolt to the Areca was just much better : with 16 Tb on the promise in raid 6 I was constantly moving file around to get work done, now with 48 Tb I feel way more confortable.
I already have bought an extra 1680 xi 12 ( got it used for 100$) to see how it would work with 12 cheap SSD : that might be easier to deal with than expensive PCIE SSD and still be able to have over 1Gb/s read /write.
due to the complexity of running dual xeon, I might just go the X99 route until it gets official dual xeon V3 support. this might not happened anytime soon as I dont think they can put two 160w processor in the cylinder...
as long as I can put at least 64 Gb of ram and have 40 PCIE lanes I'll be golden. with the saved cash i might go the twin gtx 980 route over the twin K4000.